Mawlana Bhasani’s political life is characterized by a paradox. His frequent invocation of Islam and his involvement with pro-Maoist radical peasant and student movements stood in contrasts to each other. This paradox, I argue, reflects Bhasani’s endeavour to reinvent peasant communitarian consciousness in relation to their marginality in global capitalist property regime.
Mawlana Bhasani’s political life is characterized by a paradox. His frequent invocation of Islam and his involvement with pro-Maoist radical peasant and student movements stood in contrasts to each other. This paradox, I argue, reflects Bhasani’s endeavour to reinvent peasant communitarian consciousness in relation to their marginality in global capitalist property regime. Histories of peasant movements in the majority world had often focused on the debates between Lenin1 and Chayanov2, or in the typologies of peasant revolutions as explained by Barrington Moore. Moore classified p...
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